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French mathematician (–)

For other uses, see Legendre.

Adrien-Marie Legendre (;^[3]French:[adʁiɛ̃maʁiləʒɑ̃dʁ]; 18 September – 9 January ) was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics.

Well-known and important concepts such as the Legendre polynomials and Legendre transformation are named after him. He is also known for his contributions to the method of least squares, and was the first to officially publish on it, though Carl Friedrich Gauss had discovered it before him.^[4][5]

Life

Adrien-Marie Legendre was born in Paris on 18 September to a wealthy family.

He received his education at the Collège Mazarin in Paris, and defended his thesis in physics and mathematics in He taught at the École Militaire in Paris from to and at the École Normale from At the same time, he was associated with the Bureau des Longitudes.

In , the Berlin Academy awarded Legendre a prize for his treatise on pr